For the one-year anniversary of its cloud gaming service, GeForce Now, Nvidia has settled on post-promotional pricing for its subscription plan. Dubbed “Priority membership,” the plan replaces the existing $5-a-month Founders membership with the identical benefits. Members get priority access in the queue to reach the servers, support for Nvidia’s RTX ray-tracing and continuous sessions …
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You’ve gotta love an industry that keeps tossing out new gaming graphics processors that get snatched out of midair before you can catch them. The latest in what I hope is the last of these launches for a while is AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT, the new entry-level graphics card in the company’s RX 6000 generation. It follows the recently launched RX …
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Mobile gaming through platforms like Apple Arcade and Google Stadia has been slow to compete with traditional consoles like the Playstation 5 and the Xbox Series X. But a new keyboard and mouse adaptor from Kaliber Gaming and IOGEAR aim to change that. The KeyMander 2 Mobile is a keyboard and mouse adapter for mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad …
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AMD is bringing us a new affordable graphics card, the RX 6700 XT. It’s a followup to the October launch of its Radeon RX 6000-based GPUs, the RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900. The launch comes just after Nvidia launched an entry-level card incorporating its latest Ampere architecture, the GeForce RTX 3060. AMD’s new card seems more of a competitor …
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Many people like their work laptops tiny and light and their gaming laptops screamingly fast and crammed with the latest technology. Sadly, the laws of physics conspire to keep us from getting both in a single device, but Asus gives it a shot with the combination of its ROG Flow X13, a 13-inch, 2.9-pound two-in-one laptop, and the XG Mobile, a compact external-GPU-plus-dock combo device. The …
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Nvidia wants you to replace your old GTX 1060 already for 1080p gaming. That’s no surprise, considering that graphics processor has been around since 2016. The company hopes its AI-driven DLSS upscaling (for faster frame rates at a given resolution) will be more attractive in the new entry-level RTX 3060 than it ever did in the meh RTX 2060 line …
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Lenovo ThinkPads rule the business laptop market and, although the company’s premium ThinkPad X1 models get all the attention, your IT department is more likely to give you something from its X, T, L or P series of laptops. That’s nothing to sniff at, though, as the PC-maker announced today that all those lineups are getting refreshed models with 11th-gen …
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Nvidia announced in September that it planned to acquire chip design licenser Arm at the big-ticket price of $40 billion in cash and stock. Major tech companies reportedly aren’t happy about the deal and want it stopped. Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm asked antitrust regulators to squash Nvidia’s acquisition, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday. The companies reportedly raised concerns that Nvidia’s purchase …
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A year after its official launch, Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service is close to completing its expansion to support every platform. Just last week the beta of the service became available for Chrome on Windows and Mac, and on Thursday the company announced the app will work on Apple Macs that use the new M1 CPU via the Rosetta …
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Nvidia this week added Chrome browser support for its game streaming service GeForce Now. According to release notes, beta support for GeForce Now gaming on Google’s browser is now available for Windows and Mac users. GeForce Now via Chrome browser has also added a way to create bookmarks and shortcuts for your favorite games. To do this, just click on …
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